The 2016 tax season officially started Jan. 19 - the first day the Internal Revenue Service began accepting individual electronic tax forms. With that in mind, here are the newest changes the IRS has implemented - along with some of the more surprising deductions you can claim.

The State Department already has the right to either refuse to issue or renew passports to people who owe more than $2,500 in child support or certain other debts, like travel expenses related to helping a passport applicant return to the US.

This new law, which comes out of previous iterations that stalled in Congress, is the first to take direct action in attempting to curb the travel of taxpayers who have outstanding tax debt.

“The [Senate Finance] Committee is aware that the amount of unpaid Federal tax debts continues to present a challenge to the IRS,” a report on the bill reads. “The Committee believes that tax compliance will increase if issuance of a passport is linked to payment of one's tax debts.”

In March of 2011, research done by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) explored the possibility of using passport issuance as a means of collecting taxes. GAO found that of the 16 million passports that were issued in 2008, about 224,000 of those individuals owed a little over 5.8 billion in unpaid federal taxes.